Chapter Two

I woke up to someone screaming. I wasn't thinking and grabbed the nearest pair of jeans I could find. I didn't care if Anne yelled at me for not having on a shirt. One of my Flock members is hurt and no way am I going to bother with getting clothes on.

I ran out to the front to see Flyboys everywhere. This just pissed me off even more.

"Fang get in here and put on a shirt!" Anne yelled at me from the table. I turned and glared at her.

"Shut up. You're just lucky that I put jeans on. Your house is surrounded by Flyboys and you're sitting there drinking coffee. Well continue what you're doing as I save my family." I ran out the door and spread my wings out taking flight. Nudge had been scratched and was now beating the shit out of the Flyboy. Let's just say he lost his head pretty damn fast.

"Care to explain why no one woke me up when they came?" I asked everyone. Iggy was the first to answer.

"Because when Nudge screamed that's when they came." Well that explains it. Now if Max was here I wouldn't have slept in and she would have yelled at me for doing so. I sighed and ran full speed at one of the Flyboys. I hit their lower back and their heads popped off. Well that's good news.

"Malfunction in their back. It the lower part and they should die." I shouted out. This was good news for me. I highly doubt it was good new for the Flyboys.

"Very Good Fang. It only took Max a second for her a day to realize that but yet it took you so long. Maybe you aren't fit to be leader like you thought you were." I heard come from behind me. Of course it was Ari. That boy just can't leave us alone. I turned around and glared at him.

"What do you want Ari?" I asked; you have no clue how badly I wanted to punch him in the gut and make him go flying out of my yard.

"Just thought I would drop in for a little morning wake up call. Jeez Fang, you really sleep in. I had to hurt little ole Nudge there to wake your ass up." He was really starting to bother me.

"You're really getting on my nerves little boy." I said hitting a Flyboy as he came at me. I was in no mood.

"You know, if Max was here, she would kick your ass into next year for not waking up to us coming around." That did it.

"Push my button one more time, you stupid mutt." Yeah he is a mutt…one that needs to learn to shut it's mouth and have it's wings pulled off.

"I heard Max was really enjoying her time and the School."

"That's it!" I said. I flew toward him and before anyone see me do it or before he realized it, I clipped him under his jaw. He flipped backward a bit and I didn't hold back. I kicked him in his rib cage enjoying the sound of his ribs breaking. He leaned forward and I punched his nose feeling it break underneath my hand. This was just too much fun. I did a round house and kicked his chest knocking the breath right out of him.

"When are you ever going to learn? We always have the upper hand. Why don't you crawl to daddy and make sure his cuts your wings nice, slow, and painful." I said grabbing his wings and thrusting them down ward. He started spiraling down toward the ground and fast. Good reddens.

"Fang, need some help!" I heard Iggy yell. I looked over to see that he was surrounded by Flyboys. Don't they leave once their "leader" has been kicked out for the count? Was Ari their leader or just some guy hanging around to see the show? He and I are going to have a talk once I'm showered, dressed, and all of this is taken care of.

I flew over to Iggy and kicked the Flyboy that was trying to hit him from the back. He was a bit scratched up but it was nothing we couldn't take care of.

"I'm here Iggy." I said tapping his shoulder. He nodded and swung an arm around managing to hit a Flyboy and knocking his head right off.

"Nice shot." I commented as I round house kicked some Flyboys head off.

"Not bad yourself." The Flyboys kept coming. It's like they wouldn't die. That's when it hit me that Iggy and Gazzy were working on something just a few days ago. With them it should be done by now, right?

"Iggy, is Gazzy and your little explosive ready yet?" I asked punching a Flyboy.

"Yeah, several of them, why?" I heard him hit the Flyboy in the chest. That's when I heard it fly several feet away and hit another Flyboy a few feet away. The smile on my face was rather big as I heard them explode.

"Good. Gazzy run inside and get all of the finished explosives out here." I commanded, knocking the Flyboy miles from me.

"A few bats would be nice too." Iggy yelled.

"Gotcha!" I saw Gazzy drop down just in time for two Flyboy's to crash. He dropped faster then I have ever seen him and ran inside too.

"Angel, how you doing?" I asked. "Iggy to your left at three o'clock." I said.

"A little beat up but that bat will do wonders." I smiled. That was our little girl. Staying strong when it didn't count. I could've told the little ones to get inside now but Nudge isn't so little and they would have fought anyway. No point in wasting your breath for a stupid command.

A few minutes later, Gazzy came running out with, what looks to be, 15 small bombs in his hands and five baseball bats. He opened his wings and took flight.

"Fang, Iggy." I heard him say as he threw two baseball bats at me and six bombs at me. I grabbed the bats and handed them to Iggy. He took them and I flew underneath the bombs catching all of them.

"Nice catch." I heard Gazzy say as he flew back.

"Thanks, nice throw." He flew off to Angel and handed her a bat and three bombs. He did the same with Nudge. Iggy handed me a bat and I handed him his three bombs.

"Now let's have some fun." Iggy said as I back handed a Flyboy in the head with the bat.

"Let's." We all said. This was going to be fun. You really couldn't swing full with bombs in your hand but let me tell you, we have a pretty nice back swing. I heard an explosion and looked to see that Gazzy had thrown one of his bombs and several Flyboy parts were going everywhere. There was another and it came rather close to me.

"Hey, watch where you throw these. I don't want to be picking up your guys pieces too." I heard Nudge laugh and another explosion went off.

"This is fun! Now I know why you guys love them so much." I just rolled my eyes. Several explosions went off and I think I was the only one who hadn't thrown a bomb yet. I looked at it and noticed it had a key pad and the clock on it. All I had to do was punch in the time and throw. Easy peasy, right? Wrong!

"Iggy explain!" I said after it didn't work. I knew I wasn't the only one have trouble with this. I heard Gazzy tell Angel and Nudge. You think I would have listened, but obviously I didn't.

"3, 10, 12, 15, 18. Type those five numbers in and throw it quickly. It has time set for seven seconds. If it's not gone by then, well nice knowing you. It holds quite a punch." I turned and looked at the group of Flyboys. I punched in the numbers and threw it hard and fast. Seven seconds later, the group of Flyboys were no more. They finally stopped the attack and started to leave. There had to have been over a hundred Flyboy parts lying around. That's when Anne decided to come out and yell at us. When it was all safe so she wouldn't have to get hurt. Boy, I would love to hurt her right now.

"Look at what you did to my yard!" She shouted upward. I just rolled my eyes. I don't really care if she has a hissy fit. No she doesn't have them, she is a hissy fit. I don't think I have ever heard her yell this much.

"You will clean this up as soon as you get your ass in the house, shower, put on some god damn clothes, and clean your rooms. I told you were sitting around all the time thinking you could do what you wanted to do. It doesn't work like that. Sorry." I have had enough of this.

Angel, we're going to leave as soon as we all shower and "clean" our room. I sent toward Angel. I didn't want to stay with her. Four years was enough. Well it was for them. It's only been two for me and I hated it the day I walked through her door.

Where are we going to go?

We are going to go visit Dr. Martinez. I smiled and dropped down. Spread it around. We leave in an hour. Everyone followed me and I stopped right in front of Anne.

"What ever you say, Anne." I said smiling. This was too good to be true. By now the message was sent as the Flock nodded walking past me.

"This had better be cleaned up in an hour." She said glaring at me. I couldn't get rid of the smile on my face.

"Of course Anne…" I said walking past her. "…for you to clean up." I mumbled laughing a bit. I wish I could stay and watch her face but knowing her she would some how make us go back.

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I was done with my shower and had on a pair of fresh underwear, of course, jeans, and a Tapout shirt. (It's been four years, they now year labels! 8D) I packed all of my clothes into my backpack, which by the way wasn't a lot. I only owned like three pairs of jeans and four shirts, it's all I needed. I walked out to the kitchen and got several bottles of water, a few snacks, and walked back to my room. The Flock and I don't care if our water is cold or not. It's something to drink. I got my shoes on and walked over to check on everyone. Angel was packing away everything and placing Celeste in her bag. Yes she still had her. I don't think Angel will ever get rid of it. Iggy was placing every single one of his "almost" ready bombs carefully into his bag and placing his clothes over them. Gazzy was sitting there already ready to go and was playing a video game.

I knocked on his door frame and walked in. "Gazzy, you know you can't play with that while we fly, right?" I asked.

"Yeah, I was just about to save and put it away." He said clicking a few buttons and putting it away.

"Okay, we leave in 15 minutes." I said walking out and heading over to Nudge's door. It was closed and that only meant that she was getting dressed. We have a strict rule, doors are only to be closed if you are changing or sleep and I knew Nudge wasn't sleeping.

I knocked on it lightly and was about to tell her that we leave in 15 minutes when she opened the door.

"Yeah?" She asked. My guess was that she just put her shirt on seeing as how she was fixing it.

"We leave in 15 minutes, be ready or be spaghetti." God I haven't said that in forever.

"Okay, let me pack and get my shoes on and we can leave." She was wearing a white Hollister shirt with a back tank top on underneath, a pair of jeans and had surprisingly brushed her hair.

"Okay." I walked away and headed back to my room. I noticed that Angel, Gazzy, and Iggy were headed toward my room too with their backpacks on. God, the two little ones grew up too fast.

"Who you looking for?" I asked startling them. Well everyone except Angel. She probably heard me.

"You. When we leave?" Iggy asked still walking towards my room.

"In 15 minutes. If Nudge isn't ready then she can meet up with us. " I said turning toward my room. They all filled in and placed their bags with mine. Iggy, I noticed, had on the American eagle with a Tapout shirt on. Angel had on an American eagle shirt with nice little gemmed jeans on and Gazzy had on a new American eagle shirt on with jeans that looked exactly like mine. Anne had this thing with forcing us to wear labels. I hated it, but the skater clothes I can do, I aint no preppy, pretty boy. No way in hell am I some snot nose pretty boy.

"God, I hate what Anne is making us wear. It's so uncomfortable and it isn't us." I said picking at the fabric on my shoulder.

"Really? I think we look good." Angel said. I just rolled my eyes.

"Of course you do. You are in love with anything that has to do with shopping." Iggy said.

"Thank you. Face it, we didn't grow up this way and I never thought we would. But now we get here and Anne is making us wear this. Sorry to say, but good reddens to her. I'm beyond relieved and happy that we're leaving. Not only that, we don't have to do to school." Every single one of them smiled when I said that. We had a huge thing about schools. No way was I going back to one that was supposed to help us learn.

"Okay, I'm ready to go." Nudge said coming into the room with her bag on her back.

"How many bombs do we have left?" Iggy asked smiling. I'm really starting' to like the way he thinks about everything.

"About eight or so, why?" Gazzy asked. I caught on so fast; you wouldn't believe that I was smiling at this.

"Okay guys, I know what Iggy is talking about. Huddle up." We all huddled up and I told them the plan. Gazzy pulled back and smiled; he was ready to go.

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I opened up my window and closed my door. I didn't want Anne to come running in here yelling at us and catching us in the middle of action. (No homo intended on that statement.)

I looked behind me and made sure that nothing was left behind and that no one was forgotten. Oh at this point you might be wondering where Total was, well he somehow managed to follow Max and we haven't heard from him ever sense. Angel hated the fact that she had to let her one and only dog go but face it, it was a pretty damn big and a good choice.

I went out the window and shut it behind me. My room was on the second level and there was a small, very small, place I could set my feet to close the door. I dropped and opened my wings at the last second and pushed hard and flew up to the roof.

"Okay, Gazzy, do you have the bombs?" I asked quietly, landing and sitting down like they were.

"Yes, here." He held out his hands and I didn't take them.

"Same code? Same everything?" I really didn't want to have to worry about things happening.

"Yes, yes, just take them." Since when did Gazzy not want to touch a bomb?

"Everyone take one. It's time for us to clean up." I said smirking. They all grabbed one and there were three extra. I gave a second one to Iggy, Gazzy, and I held the last one. No I wasn't being a sexist pig, Iggy and the Gasman know the bombs better and to tell you honestly, I like to blow things up.

We took flight and went over to Anne's yard. Hovering there, I looked at everyone and they got ready. We had to get high enough so that we didn't leave too big of a mess on her yard.

"Everyone ready?" They nodded and I could see Anne out one the front porch.

"Hey Anne!" I yelled down, punched in the code, and dropped the bomb. The Flock followed and Iggy, Gasman, and I got the second one ready. She walked out onto her yard and managed to avoid getting hit by them.

"This is for all the shit, you put us through." And with that all three of us threw the bombs and we headed off to Arizona.

God this was going to be a long trip. Virginia to Arizona in hopes that Dr. Martinez will take us in.

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We got to about Texas and had to stop. I must say, we made better time then I thought. We found a nice cave that had a water fall at the top of the hill. It was kind of cool. It was tucked back there and no one really knew about it. I don't know how Iggy heard the cave but he just simply said that there was a hallow break in the water and that that's most likely a cave. I swear that boy should be leader then me. I would have kept going.

Well we unpacked and I handed out some snacks to munch on and a lot of water. Lucky for us we were able to fill them up on the spot.

"Hey Fang, can I go swimming?" Gazzy asked.

"Sure why not, don't forget to put your bathing suit on. If anyone else wants to, it goes the same way. I'm pretty sure that you will be safe changing at the back of the cave. We won't look." Gazzy dug through his bag and walked back with his bathing suit in hand. No worries right? Well at least for now. I was too surprised that Ari hadn't stopped us at the border of Virginia and Tennessee! (God I love that place. I am so there when I move out! It's too pretty not to. And it feels like home!)

By the end of eating, we were all in our bathing suit and jumping down into the water. Ah! It was clear and fresh. I don't think I want to ever leave this place.

"Hey Fang, why can't we just stay here? It's nice, we have water, shelter, and can probably find something in the forest to eat every night." Gazzy said once everyone was done dive bombing into the water.

"EW! No! I don't eat meat! I aint going to live on leave either." Nudge said.

"That too. Nudge can't live off of leave, we can't harm the animals here for reasons I don't know, I just do, and as much as I want to stay here, we need to find Max. I don't care what Anne says, she isn't dead and I know it." I said fiercely. Everyone was smiling at me.

"Fang, you're doing a wonderful job as leader." Angel said. I smiled at her and the rest of the night we just sat there and made small talk. If only we could stay here, find Max at some bar (ha!) and bring her here. Then we can go back to a family and just stay here.

I want to stay here too. Angel sent my way. By now we were changed back into our clothes and sitting around a fire. Nudge and Gazzy had already fallen asleep.

How many times do I have to tell you to stop reading my mind?! I sent back to her. I was a bit upset but not really.

Sorry Fang, I can't help it if you're thinking about Max. You aren't the only one who loves her. I looked at her with shock on my face. I never told anyone that I and I didn't even know it myself.

Stop kidding yourself Fang, you know you love her. Not only that, every time you think about her, there is this huge burst of love from your emotions that are said through your thoughts.

Well…. Well…. I didn't know what to say, so I said it again. Well…I guess I'll see you in the morning. Night Angel.

"Night Fang." We tapped fists, surprisingly Nudge and Gazzy did it in their sleep, and Angel and Iggy lay down to sleep.

"Iggy, I'll take first watch." He just nodded and closed his eye.

"Good night, my Flock." I whispered as I headed over to the edge of the cliff.

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By nine o'clock the next morning we were heading off and to tell you honestly. I couldn't wait to see Dr. Martinez, Ella, and Max. I knew Max was there. I could feel her even though we're several miles away from her. There was just something that screamed Dr. Martinez at me.

"Fang, is there any way that it we could go faster?" Nudge asked from behind me. I thought we were going a bit slow.

"Yeah. Guys let's pick up the pace and see if we can beat our record time." I smiled slightly and pushed my wings harder and I started pointing a bit more up. We needed to go just a little bit higher if we didn't want to get hit or seen by planes. Our record to getting to Arizona was three hours and 25 minutes.

The air in my face blew my hair back, the wind ruffling through my wings, and the fresh air was something I have gotten a bit too used to. I couldn't do this all the time, I used to but I didn't have my Flock. I love having them around but there is no way that I could enjoy it as much when usually we're flying to get away from someone or something.

I don't know why but it really bothered me that Ari didn't stop us at the border. Did he want us to go to Dr. Martinez house or was there something waiting for us? Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?

"Hey Fang, what if Max isn't there?" Iggy asked me. He was directly across from me as the little kids hid back a little bit and chatted amongst themselves.

"Who said we're going there to see if Max is there?" I asked thanking god he couldn't see my guilty expression.

"Fang, I know you. When you have your heart set, you don't change. You don't want to believe that there is the possibility that Max is dead. But we all know Max; she puts up a hell of a fight. But what if she isn't there? Dr. Martinez isn't going to take us in when we aren't even blood related. We're "related" to a blood relative."

"Ig, you know Dr. Martinez won't just through us out like that. She would let us stay until we got back on our feet or I thought of/ found a new place to live. If things don't work out here, we will travel up North and find some where up there and I can get a job. It shouldn't be that hard right?" I shrugged even though he couldn't see me.

"A job? Like be normal? Fang you can't do that unless you go to school, graduate, then go off to law school so you can become a lawyer because we all know that you would be perfect as one. Lawyers are always stubborn and so are you." I rolled my eyes.

"I'm rolling my eyes Iggy." He just shook his head.

The rest of the way there was relatively quiet. Angel and Nudge talked a bit and Gazzy and Iggy were talking about bombs. I stayed with my peaceful thoughts and enjoyed that way there.

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It was around two when we finally got to her house. It took us three hours and 15 minutes. We beat our record! Go us!

"We did it. We got here in three hours and 15 minutes instead of three hours and 25 minutes." I said slowing down a bit. The Flock made little cheerful noises and I found the perfect place to land.

"Okay in the woods and six o'clock." I said to Iggy. We all dropped and landed gracefully on the ground. We walked out and saw a single car in the drive way. It was an okay car but not the greatest car in the world. Let's just say I've seen way better.

We walked up to the front porch and knocked on the door. It took a little bit for someone to answer the door but finally someone did.

"Can I help you?" she asked. I stared at her bewildered at the sight in front of me. It was wayyyyy to good to be true.